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THE SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 3
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The gospel surpasses the law of Moses—Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
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Do</span> we begin again to commend ourselves?  or need we, as some <i>others,</i> epistles of commendation to you, or <i>letters</i> of commendation from you?
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Ye are our <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/3/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Cor. 9: 2.">epistle</a> written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
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<i>Forasmuch as ye are</i> manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/3/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 9: 10 (10-11).">written</a> not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in <sup>b</sup><a href="2_cor/3/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 24: 12; Ex. 31: 18; Ex. 34: 1; Deut. 4: 13; Prov. 3: 3.">tables</a> of stone, but in <sup>c</sup><a href="2_cor/3/3c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ezek. 11: 19 (19-20).">fleshy</a> tables of the <sup>d</sup><a href="2_cor/3/3d" mark="d" type="A" title="Jer. 31: 33; Heb. 8: 10.">heart</a>.
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And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
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Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/3/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Cor. 2: 16; Alma 26: 12.">sufficiency</a> <i>is</i> of God;
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Who also hath made us able <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/3/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Cor. 3: 5.">ministers</a> of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_cor/3/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="John 6: 63.">spirit</a> giveth life.
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But if the ministration of <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/3/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rom. 7: 10.">death</a>, written <i>and</i> engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_cor/3/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Transfiguration.">glory</a> of his countenance; which <i>glory</i> was to be done away:
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How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
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For if the ministration of condemnation <i>be</i> glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
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For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
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For if that which is done away <i>was</i> glorious, much more that which remaineth <i>is</i> glorious.
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Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/3/12a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR boldness, frankness.">plainness</a> of speech:
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And not as Moses, <i>which</i> put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
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But their <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/3/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Mind.">minds</a> were <sup>b</sup><a href="2_cor/3/14b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Spiritual Blindness.">blinded</a>: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the <sup>c</sup><a href="2_cor/3/14c" mark="c" type="A" title="Acts 15: 21.">reading</a> of the old testament; which <sup>d</sup><a href="2_cor/3/14d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Types of, in Anticipation; TG Veil."><i>vail</i></a> is done away in Christ.
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But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/3/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Hardheartedness.">heart</a>.
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Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
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Now the Lord is <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/3/17a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR the Spirit.">that</a> Spirit: and where the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_cor/3/17b" mark="b" type="C" title="Alma 61: 15; TG God, Spirit of.">Spirit</a> of the Lord <i>is,</i> there <i>is</i> <sup>c</sup><a href="2_cor/3/17c" mark="c" type="C" title="Rom. 8: 2; TG Governments; TG Liberty.">liberty</a>.
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But we all, with open face beholding as in a <sup>a</sup><a href="2_cor/3/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Cor. 13: 12.">glass</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_cor/3/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Celestial Glory.">glory</a> of the Lord, are changed into the same <sup>c</sup><a href="2_cor/3/18c" mark="c" type="A" title="Rom. 8: 29.">image</a> from <sup>d</sup><a href="2_cor/3/18d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Man, Potential to Become Like Heavenly Father.">glory</a> to glory, <i>even</i> as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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